Sample Sentences for
obnoxious
(editor-reviewed)

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    Roy wondered what made a grownup turn out so ill-tempered and obnoxious.  (source)
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    Sisters don't have to be teenagers to be obnoxious, though.  (source)
    obnoxious = rude and unpleasant
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    There was an obnoxious woman who seemed to think I'd lied about half my application,  (source)
    obnoxious = rude or unpleasant
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    T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.  (source)
    obnoxious = rude or unpleasant
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    My childhood was privileged but not obnoxiously so.†  (source)
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    The apparent impossibility of sustaining unobnoxious behavior for even part of the day weighs heavily on the lad, and overwhelms him with a claustrophobia as impenetrable as the claustrophobia of church itself.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unobnoxious means not and reverses the meaning of obnoxious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    In time, though, his obnoxiousness would return, often even stronger than before.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    And the two Poe children—Edgar and Albert—were loud and obnoxious boys with whom the Baudelaires had to share a tiny room that smelled of some sort of ghastly flower.  (source)
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    The seat cushions were done up in an obnoxiously bright purple, but they, like the small TV hanging on the wall across from them, were coated with dust and dirt.†  (source)
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    in fight they stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained By wound, though from their place by violence moved, Now Night her course began, and, over Heaven Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed, And silence on the odious din of war: Under her cloudy covert both retired, Victor and vanquished: On the foughten field Michael and his Angels prevalent Encamping, placed in guard their watches round, Cherubick waving fires: On the other part, Satan with his rebellious disappeared, Far in the dark dislodged;†  (source)
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    Nurse Evil and I settle into a grudging routine where I pretend she doesn't exist and she leaves ever more obnoxious sticky notes to let me know that she does.  (source)
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    He doesn't show quite as much interest in Caroline as I expected, but as an obnoxiously proud dad, I feel that way about everybody.†  (source)
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    The official refused, and was plenty obnoxious about it.  (source)
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